Steve Jobs Dies Age 56

Steve Jobs the Co-founder and former CEO of Apple has died aged 56. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for some time and it was because of this that he stepped down as CEO of Apple.  In his time at Apple he has revolutionised technology, coming up with the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and of course the Macintosh computers. Steve Jobs also co-founded Pixar Animation studios. Google paid tribute to Steve Jobs by putting Steve Jobs 1955-2005 at the bottom of their homepage. Apple has a huge picture of Steve Jobs followed by 1955-2011. Steve Wozniak said he will remember Steve for “knowing what made sense in a product” he also described him as a “visionary”. Steve Jobs will be sorely missed, a grave loss to the tech world.

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Amazon Unveil iPad Challenger

Amazon unveiled their iPad challenger; it is called the Amazon Kindle Fire. It is a 7 inch Android tablet and is set to be released later this year. It was unveiled at a press conference in New York.  The tablet will cost a mere $199 (£127) which is a lot cheaper than $499 (£325). It will ship with Android 3.0 Honey Comb.

 

Spec

7 inch Touch Screen display with Gorilla Glass and a resolution of 1024x600.

Dual core Processor and 8GB internal memory                                                                   

8 hour Battery Life.

Built in WI-FI

Weighs  413g

It will be released in the US on 15^th November for $199, Amazon has yet to announce a UK release date.

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Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO

Apple’s co-founder and CEO has resigned, Tim Cook will replace him as CEO. Steve Jobs recently underwent a liver transplant due to his pancreatic cancer, Jobs has said he can no longer meet his duties and 

expectations as chief executive.                       

Steve Jobs, 56 has been on medical leave since January 17^th. In a statement he said "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's chief executive, I would be the first to let you know.

"Unfortunately, that day has come. I hereby resign as chief executive of Apple. Although Jobs has resigned he will still be on the board of directors and be a part of Apple. 

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Apple Faces Lawsuit

Apple is facing a lawsuit brought by 27,000 South Koreans who are angry over the collection of location data on iPhones and iPads.

Each is seeking 1m won (£533) in compensation for privacy violations.

Apple has faced criticism since in emerged in April that its iPhones and iPads stored locations which could be used to create a map of the user's movements.

The lawsuit could pave the way for others around the world.

Earlier this month the South Korean communications regulator Korea Communications Commission ordered Apple's local operation to pay 3m won (£1,600) fine for violating the country's location information laws.

Kim Hyeong-seok, the lawyer representing the group, himself took Apple to court earlier this year and was awarded 1m won.

The issue came to light when security researchers found a hidden file on the devices containing a record of everywhere they had been.

Used with certain software, the file could generate a map of all a person's movements with the phone.

Apple denied that it has used the information to track user location, saying that the handsets were simply recording information about mobile phone towers and wi-fi hotspots with a view to using it at a later date to "improve services".

Following criticisms, it quickly issued an update which cut the amount of time stored data was kept to just a week and no longer transferred it to the owner's computer.

It also allows users to disable the location services setting on their iPhone or iPad.

Permission for the tracking was given by users among the many pages of terms and conditions for the iTunes store.

By: Matthew Slack
Guest Writer

Apple Makes record Profit

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Apple’s profits have soared above expectations as sales of the iPhone and iPad double. Apples Net income was $7.31 billion (£4.6 billion), 125% higher than last year. Apple have sold 20million iPhones and 9.25 million iPads, however iPod sales are down 20% with Apple only shifting 7.54 million units. 

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